"You've had time to mature — and I know you're definitely not the same person you were 600 years ago, Riley."
"I did not experience the 600 years like all of you did, Katherine."
"Even so, you've experienced enough — you have 5 children, for fuck's sake. So, I am asking you now, Riley…
…what am I to you?"
"You…"
Just a single word and Katherine's heart thumped in a way that it hasn't for the last 600 years. She had truly thought that Riley's hold on her had disappeared already — after all, she had been told several times by all the people in her life that what she felt for Riley was nothing but an illusion, an escape — that she had Stockholm syndrome.
